Readers,
The University of Chicago's Consortium on School Research just released important reports about each CPS school. If you go to this website: https://ccsrsurvey.uchicago.edu/2011/ you can enter the name of the school or zip code, and see the report. I cut and pasted Garvey School Report here, so you can see what it looks like...
John W Garvy Elementary School 5 Essentials Report
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Instructional Leadership
Professional Capacity
Family and Community Ties
Learning Climate
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Garvy is organized for improvement
Garvy’s overall performance is based on its strength in each individual essential:5E Overall: Net = 1, Organized
- Instructional Leadership (average)
- Professional Capacity (average)
- Family & Community Ties (strong)
- Learning Climate (average)
- Ambitious Instruction (average)
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John W Garvy Elementary School
Overall Performance on the 5 Essentials
Overall Performance on the 5 Essentials
What are these results based on?
This school's overall performance is based on the 5 Essentials shown below. Click the
to learn more about each Essential and its underlying concepts (measures).| Essential | Essential Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|
 | Instructional Leadership In schools with strong Instructional Leadership, people, programs, and resources are focused on a vision for sustained improvement. |  Average | |
 | Professional Capacity In schools with strong Professional Capacity, adults work together as a community to promote professional growth and create an atmosphere of collaboration. |  Average | |
 | Family and Community Ties In schools with strong Family and Community Ties, there are strong relationships with students' families and the surrounding community. |  Strong | |
 | Learning Climate In schools with a strong Learning Climate, students feel safe and teachers expect students to perform their best. |  Average | |
 | Ambitious Instruction In schools with strong Ambitious Instruction, instruction is clear, well-structured, and is conducive to building and applying knowledge. |  Average | |
Garvy is organized for improvement
Garvy’s overall performance is based on its strength in each individual essential:5E Overall: Net = 1, Organized
- Instructional Leadership (average)
- Professional Capacity (average)
- Family & Community Ties (strong)
- Learning Climate (average)
- Ambitious Instruction (average)
5E Framework
Overall 5E Performance
5E Score
Trend
John W Garvy Elementary School
Comparative Performance on the 5 Essentials
Comparative Performance on the 5 Essentials
| Essential | Essential Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Instructional Leadership In schools with strong Instructional Leadership, people, programs, and resources are focused on a vision for sustained improvement. |  | |
| Professional Capacity In schools with strong Professional Capacity, adults work together as a community to promote professional growth and create an atmosphere of collaboration. |  | |
| Family and Community Ties In schools with strong Family and Community Ties, there are strong relationships with students' families and the surrounding community. |  | |
| Learning Climate In schools with a strong Learning Climate, students feel safe and teachers expect students to perform their best. |  | |
| Ambitious Instruction In schools with strong Ambitious Instruction, instruction is clear, well-structured, and is conducive to building and applying knowledge. |  | |
Garvy is organized for improvement
Garvy’s overall performance is based on its strength in each individual essential:5E Overall: Net = 1, Organized
- Instructional Leadership (average)
- Professional Capacity (average)
- Family & Community Ties (strong)
- Learning Climate (average)
- Ambitious Instruction (average)
5E Framework
Overall 5E Performance
5E Score
Trend
John W Garvy Elementary School
Overall Performance on the 5 Essentials Over Time
Overall Performance on the 5 Essentials Over Time
| Essential | Essential Trends | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Instructional Leadership In schools with strong Instructional Leadership, people, programs, and resources are focused on a vision for sustained improvement. |  | |
| Professional Capacity In schools with strong Professional Capacity, adults work together as a community to promote professional growth and create an atmosphere of collaboration. |  | |
| Family and Community Ties In schools with strong Family and Community Ties, there are strong relationships with students' families and the surrounding community. |  | |
| Learning Climate In schools with a strong Learning Climate, students feel safe and teachers expect students to perform their best. |  | |
| Ambitious Instruction In schools with strong Ambitious Instruction, instruction is clear, well-structured, and is conducive to building and applying knowledge. |  | |
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good information. I was surprised by the scores for relationships within the school and the community.I just wish the academic indicators were higher
ReplyDeleteTaft didn't do well, either did Onahan School
ReplyDeletethese reports don't look very good. Most schools in serious help in one area or more and Taft is a disaster. Administration looks like the issue. I wonder what kind of support CPS will be giving these schools?
ReplyDeletethese reports don't look very good. Most schools in serious help in one area or more and Taft is a disaster. Administration looks like the issue. I wonder what kind of support CPS will be giving these schools?
ReplyDeleteThe University of Chicago "research" was not valid research at ALL. It was a survey - I know because I took the SURVEY. It was a snapshot of how people were feeling about their schools at a particular time. A study of results over a period of time would tell you more about a school. The questions were subjective - which should not be a basis for making changes within a school.
ReplyDeleteSurveys are one way to conduct research, and research can be done about subjective matters. Read the entire report - there were objective measures as well as subjective measures. Not all the data was pulled soley from subjective information from surveys.
ReplyDelete@4:15pm
ReplyDeleteLook at the trends graphs - University of Chicago has been looking at the five performance measures, annually since 2007 - four years worth of data, so the study results are giving us a picture of how students, parents and teachers are thinking and feeling about the five areas of interest over time.
4:15 must be one of the principals at a poorly performing school. I certainly home the results of the reports and surveys promote change in my kids school. I don't think a big university would go to all this trouble if they didn't think some kind of positive change would happen in the school from these reports.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure school principals weren't thrilled to see the reports. Probably upset they couldn't "teach to the test"
ReplyDeleteif teachers, students and parents are not feeling supported - then there absolutely needs to be changes made within the school programming, administration and curriculum.
ReplyDeleteI am a parent who took the SURVEY, and I specifically took the SURVEY because I was hoping the results would promote needed change in my child's school. If the survey wasn't going to be used to promote change for problems in the school I wouldn't have filled out the survey. And, as it was explained to me, the University of Chicago has been researching CPS school performance, independently in order to improve education.
ReplyDeleteI don't get how 4:15 could take the survey, as a parent, and not want the results to produce chnage.
I think 4:15pm has some other agenda.
Low scores must be due to the foreigners who have invaded this school and don't speak English. My son is a student and half the time the teacher has to coddle those kids who don't know what she's talking about
ReplyDelete1.Get rid of illegals. We can no longer afford to educate them at the expense of our children.
ReplyDelete2. Everything falls into place after that. Do not treat our law abiding families like crap for the Democratic Parties benefit.
11:58 is too dense to realize the illgals he speaks of are here for 2 reasons. 1. Republican god Ronnie Reagan gave them a blanket pardon in the 1980s. 2. Republican moron George Bush stopped border enforcement so his Corporate masters could further exploit cheap labor.
ReplyDeleteThere is hope for you 11:58. First, stop watching Fox news. Second...forget it. There is no hope for you.
So 6:59, you think the U. of C. is "independent." Really?
ReplyDeleteFor starters, Rahm sends his kids to their elitist Lab School. So much for fot their being "independent."
Then there is its' long history of de facto support of union busting, disastorous free trade policies, etc by being the proud home of Professor Milton Friedman - hero to NAFTA-lovers like Rahm.
In other words, screw the U.of C.
I agree with 11:43 am. I am involved at a school in the 41st and I disagree with the results from parts of the survey. Our school has great community involvement! The already very effective PTA is growing and growing. We have had so many great and successful events at our school. I know that only a few bad apples can spoil the bunch - I think that's what happened with these surveys. Plus the mayor and the U of C are a close bunch. There is a big push for charter schools by this administration on the city level and the national level. So far it seems to me that the m.o. is to create upset and urgency, get people all irate so that they will feel they must go along with whatever is being put up out there and then pull the rug out from under our feet. Let's not forget that the 41st ward has the best local CPS schools in the city! These schools are for all students, not just the selective or the affluent and they have improved so much in the past decade. Education is a people business not a number business, there will always be areas for improvement. But in 41, they keep improving, and I believe they have come a long way, let's keep moving forward!
ReplyDeleteWhile I understand why people may not trust results of a survey from University of Chicago, I don't trust results of any of the monitoring and quality assurance CPS does either.
ReplyDeleteAnd looking through this blog at the comments made about education, I don't believe parents have much confidence in CPS at the school administration level. I do agree there is great parent involvement, but CPS and now the alderman want to LIMIT how parents are involved.
The CPS web site shows 52 million dollars in catering contracts in the current budget. Mostly spent on school breakfasts and lunches, the caterers are located in the city, except for the caterers serving North side schools. Those contracts went to suburban catering companies. That's wrong. All of our local tax dollars should be spent within the Chicago city limits.
ReplyDeleteThat means all kids meals served at 41st ward K through 8 schools are cooked in the suburbs, and trucked in every morning. And according to the CPS website, Local School Councils have no input on this issue.
It would be interesting to see who the connected people are behind these cozy contracts.